Use the sources report

Applies to:

The sources report gives you an in-depth look at which channels are generating traffic to your tracked websites. Sources attributes the source of a visitor, contact, or customer based on how they arrived at your website the first time they were tracked through a click or conversion.

What's included in the sources report

In your HubSpot account, navigate to Reports > Analytics Tools.

Click Traffic Analytics to open your sources report.

Click the dropdown menu at the top to toggle between a data visualization chart of each metric. You can analyzemetricsfor activity on your website such as bounce rate, new sessions, and new contacts or customers.

The sources report breaks down website traffic into the following sources:

Organic search: visits from search engines.

Referrals: visits from other websites.

Social media: visits from social media sites.

Email marketing: visits from email campaigns.

Paid search: visits from pay-per-click ads.

Paid social: visits from paid social ads campaigns.

Direct traffic: visits from users reaching your site by directly typing in a URL.

Each source is labeled with a color bubble above your chart. You can hover over a specific point on the chart to see more details for each source.

Below the chart is a table with a breakdown of each source. Select or deselect theSourcecheckboxto adjust which sources are included in the chart above. Learn how to drill down into each source to further analyze your data.

Types of sources

Create your new report

On the sources report dashboard, you can customize your report by timeframe, frequency, and analytics view. By default, you'll see data for sessions this month to date for all of your tracked domains in HubSpot.

To customize your report, use the dropdown menus at the top of your dashboard:

Date range: choose a time period for your report. Default date ranges include last month, last quarter, last year, etc.

Timeframe: if you've selected Rolling date range, you can choose a timeframe from this dropdown menu.

Frequency: how often your

Analytics views: filter by domains hosted on HubSpot and set asPrimaryin domain manager tool, or filter by acustom analytics view.

Include offline sources: select this checkbox if you want to see analytics activity for contacts who were added to your HubSpot account through an offline source, such as API or import.

Export: email a copy of your report to yourself or a member of your team.

Save as report: add this report to your reports tool, where you can add it to a dashboard.

Style: select to display your data in a bar chart or an area graph.

If you don't see the metrics you're looking for in the columns of the table below your chart, click Edit columns and select the Properties checkboxes for the metrics you want to see. The sources report can show up to seven sources at a time. To remove a source from your report, click the Xnext to any source under Selected Columns.

You can change the source you're viewing trends for by selecting or deselecting theSourcecheckbox in the table. The scale of your chart will adjust to fit the size of the metrics.

Create custom analytics views

Marketing Hub Professional or Enterprise users can create analytics views for any connected subdomains. For groups of content and contacts, you can create custom analytics views to filter your data in the sources report. Users can create up to 25 custom views.

Please note: if you've purchase a brand domain add-on, you can create 25 additional custom analytics views for any of your brand domains.

In your HubSpot account, navigate to Reports > Analytics Tools.

Select Traffic Analytics.

Click the Analytics views dropdown menu.

Select a view from the list or click Manage views.

Hover over an existing view and click Edit to make any changes.

To create a new view, click Add another view.

Enter a view name.

Select your analytics view properties:

Country: filters by the country of the visitor based on their IP address.

Subdomain: filters by the subdomain of the page being viewed. You only need to include the subdomainof your target domain, such aswww orblog. In the context of a session this will capture sessions that start on this subdomain.